The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), has announced, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and various state and local restrictions, it will move the dates of the GBTA Convention 2020 to November 7-11, 2020. The annual convention brings together over 7,000 business travel professionals from more than 50 countries across the globe; this year’s GBTA Convention was originally scheduled to take place in Denver on July 25-29, 2020.
GBTA COO and executive director Scott Solombrino said in a statement that this is the first time in the 52-year history of the convention that the GBTA had to reschedule the event. "We are all working to ensure the safety of business travelers and their families," he said. "We are hopeful that the pandemic will subside on a global level and that we will be able to help travel managers and sponsors determine how best to revive the industry when we meet in November.
“We rescheduled the event after several weeks discussing options with officials at the Denver Convention Center. We all agreed that there was no way to hold a safe, healthy and successful conference in July, so we agreed to push the dates out as far as possible in 2020. We will continue to work with the State of Colorado, City of Denver, the Convention Center and health officials to ensure we can have our convention in November. Our hope is that the pandemic will pass within the next few months and we will be able to resume our normal activities. But if that is not the case, we may need to push convention back further.”
The GBTA’s 9,000-plus members manage more than $345 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually. GBTA has a global network of more than 28,000 travel professionals and 125,000 active contacts.
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